80 Quotes About Sophocles

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

You are a woman marked for sorrow.

OD: σὺ οὔτε φωνεῖς οὔτε δρασείεις σοφά.NE: ἀλλ‘ εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε.

Τοσαῦτά σ', ὦ Ζεῦ, προστρέπω· καλῶ δ' ἅμαπομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι,ξὺν ἀσφαδάστῳ καὶ ταχεῖ πηδήματι.

ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν, εἴδωλ‘ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἤ κούφην σκιάν

There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.

None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut and fitted around my mind—like the bird who calls Itys! Itys! endlessly, bird of grief, angel of Zeus. O heartdragging Niobe, I count you a god: buried in rock yet always you weep.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.